McCartan, Cory; Fisher, Robin; Goldin, Jacob; Ho, Daniel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The estimation of racial disparities in various fields is often hampered by the lack of individual-level racial … Instrumental Regression for Disparity Estimation (BIRDiE), that take BISG probabilities as inputs and produce racial disparity … estimates by using surnames as an instrumental variable for race. Our estimation method is scalable, making it possible to …